Thursday, January 02, 2014

It’s hard to believe that I haven’t written anything since August. It’s not that nothing has been going on, I’ve just been busy. My readership is low and I was wondering if I should even continue this blog. I do like to go back and read some of the older entries so I decided that I would continue for now. My plan is to have this blog printed into books that I can give to the kids as a keepsake. I know that a few other bloggy friends have done this.

Ok, so here is a quick catch-up from the past few months:

In November I was made permanent at my job

I’ve gained 10 lbs from our amazing cafeteria

Francis made the Pee-wee AA hockey team

Hs team is terrible and have only won 2 games

I didn’t pass out when I saw Francis’ report card

Francis went to his first high school dance

Naomi performed her first skating solo

Naomi had her 7th birthday party at an art studio

She has lost 3 teeth (bottom) so far

For Halloween Naomi was a Monster high doll (Cleo de Nile) and Francis was a banana

We renovated the 2 upstairs bathrooms and replaced the upstairs hall carpet (finally)

I learned that I can fit a hockey goalie bag in my Fiat

Stephan turned 42 (he’s getting old) :o)

He continues to play hockey several times a week but spent a few weeks on the injured list for a cracked rib

Friday, August 30, 2013

Naomi was all smiles on the first day of school – couldn’t wait to see all her friends! Looks like she has the same teacher as last year (Mme. Stets) but only for French days. New English teacher is Miss Dahlia. She looks young and fun but I have not met her yet. Naomi will have her for the first time today.

Not sure how it is that my baby is in grade 2 already but I just love to watch her blossom and grow through each of her milestones.

He wasn’t nervous at all, just ran to catch his bus at 7:15am. Only the grade 7s started Thursday and the rest of the grades start today (and he is off). Looks like we have a list of school supplies to shop for during the long weekend.

Can’t believe he is in high school already! OMG where does the time go?!

Saturday, August 03, 2013

July 29th marked Naomi’s 6th year as part of our family. As it turned out, this day fell on a very busy Monday so Naomi graciously accepted to have this special day celebrated on the weekend. We used to always go out to a Chinese restaurant but this time we told her she could choose any restaurant she wanted. She chose an Italian restaurant and ordered spaghetti and meatballs!

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Hi, I'm Julie (creative, verbose, chocaholic) married to Stephan (aka: Hockey Dad). We have 2 great kids through adoption; Francis b: 29/01/01 adopted from Kemerovo, Russia in 2002 and Naomi b: 21/10/06 adopted from Guizhou, China in 2007.This blog started out as our journey to our daughter but has morphed into a blog about our life as a family.